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    • Keywords

       

      Intramolecular charge transfer; absorption and fluorescence; time resolved fluorescence measurements; acid concentration dependence; time-dependent density functional theory.

    • Abstract

       

      Effects of acid concentration on excited state intramolecular charge transfer reaction of 4-(azetidinyl) benzonitrile (P4C) in aprotic (acetonitrile and ethyl acetate) and protic (ethanol) solvents have been studied by means of steady state absorption and fluorescence, and time resolved fluorescence spectroscopic techniques. While absorption and fluorescence bands of P4C have been found to be shifted towards higher energy with increasing acid concentration in acetonitrile and ethyl acetate, no significant dependence has been observed in ethanolic solutions. Reaction rate becomes increasingly slower with acid concentration in acetonitrile and ethyl acetate. In contrast, acid in ethanolic solutions does not produce such an effect on reaction rate. Time-dependent density functional theory calculations have been performed to understand the observed spectroscopic results.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      Biswajit Guchhait1 Tuhin Pradhan1 Ranjit Biswas1

      1. Department of Chemical, Biological and Macromolecular Sciences, SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 098, India

    • Dates

       
      Published
      January 2014
      Manuscript received
      1 July 2013
      Manuscript revised
      16 October 2013
      Accepted
      18 October 2013

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